Who would have thought that Kimbo's lose against Sean would lead to him one day being on Nickelodeon and other mainstream shows. He goes from fighting slugs in dogshit filled backyards to losing to his first good oponent to being a Yahoo celeb.

LOL @ all the angry douchebags who HAAAAAATED Kimbo right from the very start and wanted nothing more than to see him destroyed and "exposed"....There's nothing Kimbo could have ever done to sway them. Even if he had a belt now they would still be hating on him relentlessly....and LOL @ everyone getting all bent out of shape about the standard bareknuckle boxing rules acting all pissed because Kimbo, an untrained street brawler, didn't want to play the butterfly guard game.

I'm from Miami and I was around when Kimbo would fight in the streets and would hear about it all the time. His first fight was in Perrine. Kenny is not from the streets, which I'm sure is the only way to hear about street fighting, but since Gannon is from Masachusetts, that is prob the only reason kenny was involved.

FLICKFACE - that fight was at my gym, and it was one of the most intense experiences of my life. totaly different than an MMA fight in intensity.

talk about it, if you would be so kind. i remember thinking at the time about if something could really go down in the gyms i had trained in.

i'd be interested in your take at the time

-MM

well.... i knew sean from the New England mma scene, and i used to coach no-gi at Sityodtong. basically he asked me to hold the fight at my gym in Rhode Island to avoid any problems with the Mass boxing commish. I said no prob, i saw it as doing my part for mma. Kimbo had been saying that he would fight anyone that wasn't a pro boxer, basically saying that everyone else was not tough enough.

before the fight, my mat space was wide open and inviting, so i built a sturdy knee wall on the open side and tried to get as much matting on the wall as possible.

the night of the fight, (i think it was a monday) i pick up Kimbo and his crew and we head to my gym. we get there and everyone goes off to the side, Gannon and his crew show up and go to a back room to get ready. the two opposing camps meet in my office and finalize the rules, no kicking, no wrestling, 30 sec count IIRC. Kimbo took the mat first, then someone (maybe lance) went and got Sean.

Sean walks onto the mat, no shake, no formalities, not even "let's do this". Straight into the fight.

let me re-watch the fight to spark my memory and i will come back to this later. and let me know if you have any questions.

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